Category Archives: Weight Loss

By: Rachael Rettner Published: 04/25/2016 11:12 AM EDT on LiveScience Dining out or eating canned foods might not actually be so bad for your waistline, a new study from Spain suggests. In the study, researchers at the Autonomous University of Madrid analyzed information from more than 1,600 people ages 18 to 60 who answered questions…

Many of us are undoubtedly concerned about the way we’ll age on the outside, fearing wrinkles, lines and gray hairs. But what’s really important is how well we’re aging on the inside. Australian dietitian Ngaire Hobbins, author of “Eat to Cheat Aging,” said the concept of “cheating” age came to her after years of working…

The long read: In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar and not fat was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined. How did the worlds top nutrition scientists get it so wrong for so long? Robert Lustig is a paediatric endocrinologist at the University…

(CNN)The obesity epidemic has gone global, and it may be worse than most thought. A new study in The Lancet says that if current trends continue, 18% of men and 21% of women will be obese by 2025. In four decades, global obesity has more than tripled among men and doubled among women, the study…

Nutritional guidelines and recommendations are constantly changing in the light of new research. It can be difficult to keep up with which foods are healthy and which arent. Here we look at five foods that have gone through the cycle of being the villains of nutritional science but are now, based on some old and…

Every day millions of internet users ask Google lifes most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the commonest queries Honestly? The short answer is more than likely that you are consuming more calories than you are expending. Of course there is a little more to it than that. It helps to…

Weighing 90kg and not wanting to be an “embarrassment” to her teenage daughters, Michele Cadman was ready to try almost anything to lose weight. “All of a sudden you’ve put on 20-odd kilos and mentally it becomes quite difficult to shed that weight,” she said. “It became a problem and no matter how hard I…

STILL reeling from a painful breakup, Elena Gluhova realised that the damage caused by her lousy ex-boyfriend went far beyond a broken heart: Her emotional eating had caused her to balloon to her heaviest weight of 130 pounds (59kg). “Quite frankly, I felt fat, ugly and not attractive,” recalls the petite 32-year-old New York City…

What hypnosis can do for you depends on what you need. That might be a slight exaggeration, but the truth is that hypnosis is being used more and more regularly to treat a wide range of conditions. Apart from its well-known benefits to help people quit smoking, lose weight, gain confidence, and a host of…

Take healed patients’ word for it, and learn what medical journals have presented about hypnotherapy, beginning with these 12 evidence hypnosis is real: It can treat panic attacks – Hypnosis is a powerful anti-anxiety intervention; a holistic approach that incorporates hypnotherapy can greatly ease or get rid of panic attacks, something that most patients can attest…